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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg has been composing a piece for the piano that charts the dramatic events unfolding around him.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2023

Crossett has altered the format of the visual city symphonies he has been composing for years, but the material is familiar.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

This New York-based singer-songwriter has been composing and performing folk-inspired acoustic tunes since she was a Barnard student in the early 1980s.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019

Abels, 55, has been composing since he was a child.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2017

"Your majesty has been composing, I perceive, and your composition is in strict accordance with the rules of counterpoint."

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)